Intro to Anthropology
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Archaeology
Film Review
Vocabulary
100
The four subfields of Anthropology include these
What are Cultural, Physical, Archaeology, and Linguistics
100
This basic unit of genetic information is made up of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA
What are Genes
100

This term refers to the locations of artifacts, features, and sites in space and time

What is Provenience:

Coordinates = Space

Stratigraphy = Time

100
According to the film "Human Origins" where do our earliest ancestors come from?
What is East Africa
100
This term refers to appearance represented by the allelic composition of a gene
What is Phenotype
200
This is the term for the systemic and scientific study of the way of life of one particular society, incuding subsistence, kinship patters, economics, politics, and religion
What is Ethnography
200
This phenomenon occurs when only a few founders populate an area and changes in the gene pool result purely from chance
What is the Founders Effect
200
State-level complex societies share these characteristics
What are 1) Centralisation of power 2) Communication network 3) Monopoly on the use of violence 4) Agrarian/Pastoral/Marine intensive subsistence space 5) Writing or other forms of accounting systems 6) terrortioral control 7) specialisation of labor and stratification 8) ranking or hierarchical ordering of classes and kinship networks 9) Ideological belief in one creator, god, with other lesser ranking gods 10) Redistribution and tribute
200
All humans have the same chromosome number, basic genetic composition, and are all the same species meaning that this term refers to a cultural construction rather than a biological classification
What is Race
200
This term refers to the concept that all cultures are equal and comparable, and no culture is inferior or superior
What is Cultural Relativism
300
This is the term for the comparative study of two or more societies
What is Ethnology
300
The three basic postulates of evolution by means of natural selection include
What are 1) Ability of a population to expand is infinite while resources are limited 2) Organisms vary in their individual traits and these variations allow some to survive and reproduce more successfully 3) Traits are passed from parents to offspring
300
Absolute and Relative refer to these kinds of techniques used in archeology
What is Dating
300
According to the film "Human Origins" bipedality is important for these three adaptive traits
What is 1) Keeps the body cooler 2) Better means of transporation in open areas 3) Frees the hands to carry things or to forage/use tools
300
This problematic term refers to the idea that societies progress in stages from savagery to barbarism to civilisation
What is Unilinial evolution
400
Franz Boas' major contribution to Anthropology includes
What is the concept of cultural relativism
400
Explanations for evolutionary change that explain biological diversity in humans include these four factors
What are 1) Mutations 2) Natural selection 3) Genetic drift 4) Sexual selection
400
The stages in the development of archeology as a disipline include the following
What is Speculation, historical or cultural particularism, processural, and post-processual
400
The film "Beneath Kentucky's Fields and Streets" covers these four time periods
What is the Frontier period, the Antebellum period, and the Civil War period, and the Industurial period
400
This term refers the allelic composition of a gene
What is Genotype
500
Lewis H. Morgan's major contribution to Anthropology includes
What is Unilinial evolution
500
This distinctive characteristic of "Lucy" or Australopithecus Afarensis that makes her an ancestor in our evolutionary process includes
What is Bipedality
500
Increased population growth, increased communicable diseases, decreased quality of food, warfare and economic inequality are problems that arise from the dependency of this form of agricultural subsistance
What is Food production
500

In the movie "Beneath Kentucky's Fields and Streets," archelogical evidence such as buttons, coins, hearth and faunal remains, allows us to understand this

What are The lifeways of the people addressed in the film

500
This basic principle in archaeology and geology helps to determine the time of deposition of artifacts or strata
What is Uniformitarianism, or the idea that geologically anchient conditions were the same as those occuring today
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